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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






2. The person who 'tells' the story.






3. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






4. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






5. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






6. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






7. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






8. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






9. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






10. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






11. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






12. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






13. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






14. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






15. A short saying with a moral.






16. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






17. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






18. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






19. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






20. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






21. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






22. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






23. The organizational form of a literary work.






24. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






25. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






26. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






27. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






28. A poem that tells a story.






29. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






30. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






31. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






32. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






33. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






34. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






35. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






36. What a story or play is about.






37. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






38. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






39. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






40. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






41. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






42. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






43. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






44. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






45. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






46. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






47. A three-line stanza.






48. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






49. A four line stanza in a poem.






50. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.